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11/15 I wasn't all that excited when I learned that Times ranked Cal #2,
until I found today that Stanfurd ranked #7.
\_ Granted the criterea, Cal's rank following Harvard sounds right.
I don't know about the sciences or the professional schools, but
the truism in the humanities & the social sciences is that
less status-obsessed schools like Cal and UChicago are good places
to be productive, while Harvard is a good place to die. --elizp
\_ URL, please. And it kills me that Cal football is #4.
Still doesn't guarantee a Big Game win.
\_ http://www.thes.co.uk/worldrankings. -tom
\_ is there an open login? csuamotd/csuamotd doesn't work
\_ http://www.bugmenot.com
\_ http://www.coe.berkeley.edu/newsroom/index.html
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2-1343642,00.html
I lost the link to the .pdf file that lists the scores of
all 500 universities.
\_ ETH, ANU, LSE and especially Singapore are way overrated
here. UCSF and Caltech are hard to compare to large
universities.
\_ "... academics worldwide regard Harvard as an excellent institution,
although they rate Berkeley more highly.
"... Harvard has reached the pinnacle by doing well in both of
our most highly weighted criteria - peer review and the number
of paper citations per faculty member"
Granted the criterea, Cal's rank following Harvard sounds right.
I don't know about the sciences or the professional schools, but
the truism in the humanities & the social sciences is that
less status-obsessed schools like Cal and UChicago are good places
to be productive, while Harvard is a good place to die. --elizp
\_ in terms of what? academics? sports? prestige?
\_ Academics.
\_ URL, please. And it kills me that Cal football is #4.
Still doesn't guarantee a Big Game win.
\_ http://www.thes.co.uk/worldrankings. -tom
\_ is there an open login? csuamotd/csuamotd doesn't work
\_ http://www.bugmenot.com
\_ http://www.coe.berkeley.edu/newsroom/index.html
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2-1343642,00.html
I lost the link to the .pdf file that lists the scores of
all 500 universities.
\_ ETH, ANU, LSE and especially Singapore are way overrated
here. UCSF and Caltech are hard to compare to large
universities. |
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| www.thes.co.uk/worldrankings -> www.thes.co.uk/worldrankings/ Who is to say which those a re and how they should be identified? The Times Higher World University Rankings, compiled by QS, represent a f irst attempt to compare the world's top universities in the round. World University Rankings 2004 The list of the top 200 universities worldwide, a full analysis of the si tuation worldwide, peer reviews and more. |
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| www.coe.berkeley.edu/newsroom/index.html Citris bldg CITRIS Headquarters Groundbreaking The official ground breaking on October 29 marked the first milestone in construction of the new CITRIS Headquarters, a 145,000 square foot state -of-the-art facility, where students and faculty will make the technolog ical breakthroughs needed to solve society's greatest challenges. Forefront - A magazine, published three time s a year, that takes you into the labs, classrooms, and lives of profess ors, students, and alumni for an intimate look at the innovative researc h, teaching, and campus life that defines the College. University of California, Berkeley ranked 2nd in the world The Times Higher Education Supplement of Britain has released its ranking s of the top 200 universities in the world. Harvard leads the pack with UC Berkeley in second place and MIT in third. American institutions occu pied seven of the top ten places. Construction launched for CITRIS building to foster innovative techno logical research and education With ceremonial tosses of dirt, UC Berkeley on Friday kicked off construc tion of the new headquarters building for the Center for Information Tec hnology Research in the Interest of Society (CITRIS), the campus's newes t classroom and research facility. Five UC Berkeley faculty members named AAAS Fellows Eugene E Haller, professor of materials science in the College of Engine ering and a faculty senior scientist at the Lawrence Berkeley National L aboratory, was named as a fellow to the American Association for the Adv ancement of Science, "for the development of ultrapure semiconductors, i ncluding isotopically pure materials, and for the investigation of their physical and electronic properties and their device applications." NSF funds new Center of Integrated Nanomechanical Systems The NSF has awarded $119 million to a new Center of Integrated Nanomecha nical Systems. Directed by Alex Zettl (Physics), the center is a partner ship between UC Berkeley, Caltech, Stanford and UC-Merced with collabora tors in industry and the national laboratories. Research will focus on t he science and engineering of nanomechanical systems that are likely to have applications in chemical and biological sensing, and high-density, low-power, low-cost computation. White House honors five UC Berkeley researchers for early career achi evements Brian Wirth, assistant professor of nuclear engineering; Kara Nelson, ass istant professor of civil and environmental engineering; and Kimmen Sjl ander, assistant professor of bioengineering, received the nation's high est award for scientists at the early stages of their careers at a White House ceremony on September 9, 2004. Visual Computer Science Technology Center Creates Virtual Environment s UC Berkeley students may soon be able to meet professors at UC Davis in a ncient Sicily for lively intellectual discussions. Recent visual compute r science advances by Ruzena Bajcsy, director of the Center for Informat ion Technology Research in the Interest of Society (CITRIS), may make su ch interactions possible. Lab Notes, writer David Pescovitz, reports on UC Berkeley mechanical engineers who are developing air-monitoring tech nology to help stop the spread of airborne diseases. The system, still u nder construction, combines several of UC Berkeley's recent advances in nanotechnology, bioengineering, and microfabrication. In this video clip, Albert Pisano, of the Department of Mechanical Engine ering, explains the big idea behind the biosensor. |
| www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2-1343642,00.html The Times and The Sunday Times electronic paper The Times and The Sunday Times electronic paper Britain November 04, 2004 Britain wins eight places in world list of 50 best universities By Tony Halpin OXFORD and Cambridge are among the world's top ten universities, accordin g to a new global ranking published today. They were fifth and sixth respectively in the league table of the world's 200 best universities. American institutions occupied seven of the top ten places, with Oxbridge the highest-ranked outside the United States. London's position as a centre of global educational significance was conf irmed with four institutions in the top 50. The London School of Economi cs was 11th, Imperial College 14th, University College London 34th, and the School of Oriental and African Studies 44th. The only European university outside Britain in the top 20 was the Federa l Institute of Technology in Zurich, Switzerland, in tenth place. Cambridge, Massachusetts, however, can lay claim to being the world's mos t intellectual city, as home to Harvard and to the Massachusetts Institu te of Technology, which was ranked at No3. California also scored highly, with the University of California, Berkele y, in second place, the California Institute of Technology, fourth, and Stanford seventh. Tokyo University, in Japan, ranked at No12, was the highest-ranked instit ution in Asia, followed by Beijing University at No17. Six were among the to p 50 in the World University Rankings, led by the Australian National Un iversity in sixteenth place. France, by contrast, managed just two universities in the top 50, with th e cole Polytechnique in 27th place and cole Normale Suprieure 30th. H eidelburg University, in 47th place, was Germany's only entry, one fewer than Hong Kong. Britain was home to 18 of Europe's top 50 universities, and six of the to p ten, but not a single institution from Spain, Portugal, Italy or Greec e made the list. The United States had 62 of the top 200 universities, f ollowed by Britain with 30, Germany 17 and Australia 14. Twenty-nine cou ntries were represented in the global rankings overall. Universities were placed in the table with the help of findings from a su rvey for the THES of 1,300 academics in 88 countries. They were asked to name the best institutions in the fields that they felt knowledgeable a bout. The table also included data on the amount of cited research produced by faculty members as an indicator of intellectual vitality, the ratio of f aculty to student numbers and a university's success in attracting forei gn students and internationally renowned academics in the global market for education. The five factors were weighted and transformed against a scale that gave the top university 1,000 points and ranked everyone else as a proportion of that score. By taking acc ount of the views of academics from across five continents and using the most up-to-date statistics, our ranking gives an informed picture of th e world's top universities." A world league of the best 500 research universities, published in Septem ber by academics at Shanghai Jiao Tong University in China, placed Cambr idge third behind Harvard and Stanford. Oxford came eighth, while Britis h universities ranked second overall behind those in the United States. Last December a report by Richard Lambert, former Editor of the Financial Times, urged the Russell Group of Britain's leading 19 universities to establish a league table of the world's best research institutions, by w hich they could measure their own performances. |